Directed by:
Julian PörksenScreenplay:
Julian PörksenCinematography:
Carol Burandt von KamekeComposer:
Mahan MobasheryCast:
Sebastian Rudolph, Lilith Stangenberg, Peter René Lüdicke, Christine Hoppe, Eike Weinreich, Henning Peker, Matthias Buss, Monika Lennartz, Eva Löbau (more)Plots(1)
Sure, you could just up and leave. Right now. Just get out of the car, get off the train or the bike and you’re gone. One day 43-year-old Paul Zeise decides to give in to this thought that most people would quickly dismiss. He leaves it all behind: his wife, his job, his entire middle-class existence. From this moment on, he saunters about the country, a friendly good-for-nothing, scrounger and con man. This sees him climb into cars unbidden, gatecrash parties and funerals, collude with a grandmother with dementia and unintentionally scare the living daylights out of one small family by shamelessly barging his way into their life. Hitching a lift to Poland with a student, he wanders homelessly about the streets and temporarily moves into a hospital before falling in love with the slightly loopy Nele (29) who in turn draws him into the wonderland that is her life. Paul has no idea that his wife has hired a private detective who is now hot on his heels. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Sebastian Rudolph
West Germany
Best movies:
The English Patient (1996)
Manta - Der Film (1991)
Stalingrad (1993)
Lilith Stangenberg
West Germany
Best movies:
Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012)
I Was at Home, But (2019)
The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
Peter René Lüdicke
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Christine Hoppe
East Germany
Best movies:
Der Turm (2012) (TV movie)
Eike Weinreich
West Germany
Best movies:
Der Turm (2012) (TV movie)
Fluss des Lebens (2013) (series)
Henning Peker
East Germany
Best movies:
Downfall (2004)
Do Fish Do It? (2002)
Wie Feuer und Flamme (2001)
Matthias Buss
West Germany
Best movies:
An Enemy to Die For (2012)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Harter Brocken (2015) (TV movie)
Monika Lennartz
German Empire
Best movies:
Line of Separation (2015) (series)
A Hidden Life (2019)
Because You're Mine (2019) (TV movie)
Eva Löbau
West Germany
Best movies:
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
The Forest for the Trees (2003)
The Teachers' Lounge (2023)
Niels Bormann
West Germany
Best movies:
Toni Erdmann (2016)
No Hard Feelings (2020)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Hanns Zischler
Germany
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
Europa Europa (1990)
The Meetings of Anna (1978)
Michel Diercks
West Germany
Best movies:
The Samurai (2014)
Lisa Hrdina
East Germany
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Ein starkes Team (1994) (series)
Tod einer Kadettin (2017) (TV movie)
Ines Marie Westernströer
West Germany
Best movies:
Axiom (2022)
Black Death (2010)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Piotr Żurawski
Poland
Best movies:
Life Feels Good (2013)
The King (2020) (series)
Jutro idziemy do kina (2007) (TV movie)
Jędrzej Taranek
Poland
Best movies:
Underdog (2019)
Sęp (2013)
Kill Me If You Dare (2024)
Mariusz Jakus
Poland
Best movies:
There and Back (2001)
Samowolka (1993) (TV movie)
Ida (2013)
Andrzej Mastalerz
Poland
Best movies:
The Peasants (2023)
Europa Europa (1990)
A Short Film About Killing (1987)
Izabela Noszczyk
Best movies:
A Cat with a Dog (2018)
Kebab & Horoscope (2014)
Sto minut wakacji (1998) (TV movie)